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...curtain has just fallen on William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun (Royal Court). Let us now imagine that there steps from the wings the Stage Manager of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Pulling on a corncob pipe, he speaks...
...equally happy meeting of food, drink and the classics occurs every Sunday afternoon in New Haven, Conn., at a nightclub known as the Playback, which attracts fans like Author Thornton Wilder, Diplomat Chester Bowles and Composer Quincy Porter to hear serious music spiked with first-rate jazz. Playback is the plaything of Willie Ruff and Dwike Mitchell, the two jazzmen who touched off a modest international incident last year when they introduced cheering Russian audiences to the intricacies of the Cool. Equally at home in jazz and classical music (Ruff has a master's degree in music from Yale...
...Thornton Wilder, during his year here (1950-51) as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, gave assistance to the HDC in its production of his Skin of Our Teeth. While living in Dunster House, Wilder did quite a bit of work on a play called The Emporium, which contained much intriguing material. Wilder is an exceedingly slow and self-critical worker; and he still has not completed this play to his satisfaction...
...magazine boasts short selections from the personal writings of distinguished men: Thornton Wilder, Mark Twain and William Dean Howells, Ford Madox Ford. These pieces are all interesting, but they have all been published before and were presumably included primarily to fill out the table of contents, and perhaps to help set the tone of the publication...
...Charles Bates ("Tex") Thornton, president of Beverly Hills Litton Industries, was an Army Air Corps colonel at 28, the planning director of Ford Motor Co. at 32, the operating boss of Hughes Air craft at 35. At 47, he is a hard-working executive worth $37 million in 443,024 shares of Litton stock. It all started when he quit Hughes in the exodus of brains (TIME, Oct. 5, 1953), started his own company, which is one of the fastest-grow ing electronics firms (1959 sales: $125 million), claims to be the biggest U.S. manufacturer of desk calculating machines...